A Florida, New Jersey, and Beverly Hills Vista High School Case involving Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its Florida Campuses: No Arrests
As AI image-making tools have become more widely available, there have been several high-profile incidents in which minors allegedly created AI-generated nude images of classmates and shared them without consent. No arrests have been disclosed in the publicly reported cases—at Issaquah High School in Washington, Westfield High School in New Jersey, and Beverly Hills Vista Middle School in California—even though police reports were filed. The police did not press charges at the high school.
The first media reports of the Florida case appeared in December, saying that the two boys were suspended from Pinecrest Cove Academy in Miami for 10 days after school administrators learned of allegations that they created and shared fake nude images without consent. Parents of the victims began to urge the school to expel the boys after they learned about the incident.
Although nearly all states now have laws on the books that address revenge porn, only a handful of states have passed laws that address AI-generated sexually explicit imagery to varying degrees. Victims in states with no legal protections have also taken to litigation. For example, a New Jersey teen is suing a classmate for sharing fake AI nudes.
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Nadia Khan-Roberts, the mother of one of the victims, told NBC Miami in December that for all of the families whose children were victimized the incident was traumatizing. “Our daughters do not feel comfortable walking the same hallways with these boys,” she said. It makes me feel like I’m being exploited. One victim who asked not to be identified told the TV station that they felt used.
The reports don’t say how that person knew about the images, or who reported it. The administrator interviewed the people depicted in the altered images after he got copies, and they said that they were not consenting to the images being created.
The parent of the boy who was arrested didn’t respond to a request for comment in time. The other boy’s parent didn’t say anything. The detective assigned to the case, and the state attorney handling the case didn’t respond to questions about the case.
